Herbal Medicine: Spring Violets

Spring violets are popping up everywhere and they are so tasty! Whenever I see a bunch, I just pluck a few leaves and munch away. They have a lovely, delicate green flavor - not bitter at all. Toss the leaves into your next salad for some wild nutrition.

The flowers are tasty as well. But its so hard for me to pick spring time flowers. They have just emerged and are the first spots of color after all the brown from winter. For some reason I can't bring myself to pick them unless necessary! But if I were to come across an abundant field of violets, I know just what I would do. I would bake a homemade carrot cake, frosted with cream cheese frosting and decorate the top with violet petals. It would be so beautiful...and tasty!

Medicinally, my experience with violet is that they are great for coughs and respiratory ailments. Its a mucilaginous plant, so it coats dry, irritated mucous membrane walls for a soothing relief.

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Herbal Medicine: Spring Violets

Spring violets are popping up everywhere and they are so tasty! Whenever I see a bunch, I just pluck a few leaves and munch away. They have a lovely, delicate green flavor - not bitter at all. Toss the leaves into your next salad for some wild nutrition.

The flowers are tasty as well. But its so hard for me to pick spring time flowers. They have just emerged and are the first spots of color after all the brown from winter. For some reason I can't bring myself to pick them unless necessary! But if I were to come across an abundant field of violets, I know just what I would do. I would bake a homemade carrot cake, frosted with cream cheese frosting and decorate the top with violet petals. It would be so beautiful...and tasty!

Medicinally, my experience with violet is that they are great for coughs and respiratory ailments. Its a mucilaginous plant, so it coats dry, irritated mucous membrane walls for a soothing relief.